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Christening day November 7, 1909

• The temperature on November 7, 1909 was between -2.4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
  • September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
  • October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
  • December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.

Day of death July 20, 1935

• The temperature on July 20, 1935 was between 12.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
  • May 24 » The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.
  • June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
  • October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
  • October 19 » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
  • November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
  • December 5 » Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1927 » Ferdinand I, king of Romania (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1932 » René Bazin, French author and academic (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Lew Fields, American actor and producer (b. 1867)